<aside> 💡 You hear scattered financial advice but it's not easy to connect the dots into a cohesive picture of how your financial picture over your life is connected to your daily decisions as well as what you actually do with your time.
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<aside> 💡 You want to focus on living but know there's a financial mess in the other room you are ignoring.
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What you are actually feeling is the vague awareness that there is indeed a wealth function that constrains your life. You are trying to make optimal decisions balancing risk and the needs of your life but feel you don't have a grasp of all the variables you are ranking. When you are faced with large financial decisions (buying a house, paying for college, choosing between jobs) you don't have a clear sense of what is a "good" decision and any advice you get feels generic and certainly not relevant to your own picture which includes obligations, desires, and trajectories that your well-meaning advisors may not fully appreciate or be equipped to advise on.
<aside> 💡 This wiki is designed to give you the tools to think about money and risk holistically.
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Your wealth function is constraining your job satisfaction and standard of living but it does so in ways that you may not be fully conscious of. Unpacking these connections will guide you to make more informed and better choices to meet your true goals of living happily, with less stress on the future while enjoying increased mental bandwidth as you come to not only ignore the latest fad advice but face financial decisions with a more confident top-down framework.